Rebranding Rule The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714 Kevin Sharpe

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors.

Kevin Sharpe was Leverhulme Research Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College, University of London. He held chairs at several UK universities, as well as visiting appointments at Goettingen, Princeton, Stanford, CIT and the Australian National University, and was one of Britain's leading early modern scholars. Yale has previously published four of his books, The Personal Rule of Charles 1(1992), Reading Revolutions (2000), Selling the Tudor Monarchy (2009) and Image Wars (2010).